Kids Count report

Published: December 11, 2008

"The Center for Public Policy Priorities on Wednesday released "The State of Texas Children: Texas Kids Count Annual Data Book 2008-09," a resource that provides the latest look at the well-being of children in every county in the state.

This year's data book includes an essay, "Closing the Educational Gaps," revealing factors that can play a pivotal role in a child's academic achievement."

First time author writes a book, meets an illustrator and publishes a children's horse book fast.

"Wimberley, TX, December 16, 2008 --(PR.com)-- Texas author R.D. Jentsch has a chance meeting at a hair salon with a young illustrator, David C. Bryant and shocks the literary world by completing the book and illustrations within four short weeks and publishes it through BookSurge in three months."

12/19/2008

This is Kathi Appelt's first young adult novelThe Underneath, Simon & Shuster Children's Publishing, $16.99, chosen as a 2008 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature.

"The story unfolds under a porch in the Piney Woods of East Texas, where a calico cat and her two kittens hide from becoming alligator bait with an unlikely ally, an abused hound dog. Ancient, mythological creatures, a menacing hunter and danger inhabit the mysterious world that the four animals hide from in a dank and dark place."

Will and Son Morgan at TAMU

Will's bilingual "Arthur's Austin ABC"

Will's Texana Blogs

Notes on the Young Texas Reader

INTERFILING OTHER LISTSOccasionally, the YTR will find a separate list whose citations that will be posted on a one-at-a-time basis with its original content annotation in tact, often with supplementary information. One such case is the DRT Library's 2004 juvenile bibliography of the Alamo and Texas Revolution. Such an interfiling technique will add a structual basis not possible else wise. WH